Mia Birdsong: The story we tell about poverty isn’t true

This quick TED talk entry is courtesy of TED.com. As a global community, we all want to end poverty. Mia Birdsong suggests a great place to start: Let’s honor the skills, drive and initiative that poor people bring to the struggle every day. She asks us to look again at people in poverty: They may be broke â€” but they’re not broken.